Report of the Ninth United Nations regional cartographic conference for Africa

Abstract

The management of natural resources and the environment depended on accurate information about the location and distribution of resources, land use, and many other earth-related phenomena Geo-information being a basic ingredient in development planning, its availability, deficiency or absence will determine the success or failure of any such venture Without mapping support, geologic exploration, land management, castrate, infrastructure design and implementation, etc are almost impossible 18 The phenomenal development of science and technology during the past four decades has not spared the noble disciplines of geo-information Mapping operations have been extended from ground to satellite,photographic imagery is yielding to digital imagery and manual cartography to computer aided cartography.